As the days get short and the weather gets colder, it is a natural time to reflect on the year that was.
It is also New Year’s resolution time. Career advancement and physical fitness are always at the top of the list of commitments for the upcoming year. While we at Jobster don’t have a [...]
Marty Nemko has a story in the current issue of U.S. News & World Report about Ahead-of-the-Curve Careers. Marty takes a look at cutting-edge careers that while relatively new, are already viable and promise further growth. It’s a good read and got us wondering how many of the jobs Marty identified are [...]
It is my pleasure to introduce the blogosphere to Jeff Seely, Jobster's new CEO. The official press release can be found here.
Jeff Seely joins Jobster from Bellevue, WA based ShareBuilder Corporation where he served as CEO from 1998 until the sale of the company to ING Direct, which [...]
If you haven’t yet had a chance to join us for a webinar on accessing the Facebook audience with Jobster, please drop by the Community Building in the Age of Facebook conference at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle tomorrow. They had one or two spots left last we heard.
We’re presenting [...]
We hosted a webinar today on World-Class Sourcing Strategies with General Electric Infrastructure. It was part of our ongoing free Wednesday webinar series that we kicked off in July. The series has been incredibly well attended – so well, we extended it into the fall and will keep it going this winter. [...]
This fall Jobster’s Customer Education team conducted a user survey where we asked our recruiters what they needed from us to be successful. Many recruiters asked for additional ways to learn how to take advantage of the many benefits Jobster’s Sourcing Tools have to offer. Since recruiting seminars are one [...]
Google (update: with MySpace) is leading a new project, called OpenSocial – a set of common, open APIs that developers can use to create applications that work on any participating social networks. OpenSocial will enable companies to develop applications like Jobster Talent Networks on Facebook for any social network participating in OpenSocial. [...]
If you started your day with a cup of coffee and the morning news, you may have seen our chief Jobster on Money for Breakfast on the FOX Business Network. The video is embedded below. In it, you’ll see Jason talk with anchor, Alexis Glick about career networking and [...]
I'm Russell Williams, Jobster's new CTO and VP of Engineering. I served as Director of Engineering here at Jobster prior to my current role. I'd like to talk about Jobster's product direction and our growing team. Jobster's Sourcing Tools are profitable and growing, our consumer business is expanding, and we continue to build new search [...]
Here is an online version of our presentation to kick off the Electronic Recruiting Exchange conference in Washington D.C. this morning.
(Note: the slide builds wont work online, but we set it up so that you can click through and download a copy of the presentation to your own [...]
Since launching our affiliate program in August, we have been overwhelmed by the amount of interest from job boards, bloggers and other website owners who were interested in partnering with us. To date, we have a network of over 750 websites covering such targeted categories as healthcare, technology, legal, [...]
Jobster attended our first Electronic Recruiting Exchange [ERE] Conference 4 Years Ago.
Wow! What a difference 4 years makes.
4 years ago, online recruiting was a fairly uninspiring space, dominated by a small number of mammoth job boards.
In the years since, we've helped lead an invigorating renaissance in recruiting innovation. [...]
As we close the books on the third quarter, we wanted to take a moment to share another update on Jobster’s progress this year.
Here are some quick facts on the state of our business:
There is an interesting story in today’s Wall Street Journal about the emerging trend of recruiters checking jobseekers’ references – on networking sites like Jobster, Facebook and others – and contacting references before the recruiters talk to the potential candidates.
This draws attention to the importance to jobseekers and career networkers to collect [...]
It was great to see our friends and former Jobsters, over at Urbanspoon get covered in TechCrunch today. Urbanspoon joins FEEDJIT and RescueTime as cool emerging companies, headed up by former Jobsters, that are beginning to get good traction.
Ethan, Adam and Patrick are building a very cool restaurant review site at [...]
Please join Jobster CEO, Jason Goldberg at the following events this fall where he'll be speaking on social media, recruitment, entrepreneurship, and related topics:
Take a course at Jobster University at the OnRec expo in San Francisco!
If you are attending OnRec next week, make sure to visit us at booth #106 in the exposition hall to learn more about the following subjects:
Tuesday Expo Sessions
We've rolled out some improvements to the Jobster Career Network on Facebook.
Facebook users will now find a new category listing companies who are hiring in the UK! We launched with a few companies and will be adding more soon. Facebook users will also find "more info" links next [...]
The following is meant to spur comments and reactions of all sorts. Bring it on.
Is Facebook not just becoming the new myspace but also the new LinkedIn?
---------------- Jason Goldberg www.jobster.com
meet your future.
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[...]…well, we’re darn close and we expect to reach 50k Jobster on Facebook users this weekend.
Here are some quick fun stats:
60 = number of Jobster employer customers with 500+ Facebook users in their talent networks already.
200+ = number of people in the Talent Networks of companies like Emma, Hall & Company [...]
Become a Jobster affiliate, get targeted job content and make money! By joining our affiliate program, you will get access to our highly relevant job content and earn significant revenue for your site.
Affiliates will gain access to thousands of quality jobs via our XML job feed and the ability to [...]
Jobster, Inc. today announced a series of offerings that follow on the success of Jobster’s industry-leading Facebook application and help connect employers with valuable audiences.
The new Jobster employer offerings include:
Last week, we launched two exciting new features on Jobster.com. One is a great way to promote your brand to a targeted group of jobseekers, and the other is a way to easily upload all of your jobs onto the Jobster.com job board.
Targeted Brand Advertising within Jobster.com Search
Our new [...]
We just launched a new way for you to manage all of your Jobster comings & goings. Sign in, visit your personalized homepage, and ...
We launched a bunch of new features last night. Here's a quick summary.
Our product leads will follow up with additional blog posts with more details on each.
Employers continue to rapidly add new sign-ups for their Jobster-powered Talent Networks on Facebook.
Movers and shakers this week:
| 8/7/07 | 7/31/07 | Growth | ||
| 1. Nike | 995 | 550 | 81% | |
| 2. Verizon Wireless | 897 | 478 | 88% | |
| 3. Merrill Lynch | 864 | 458 | [...]
